you are a brave man....I would have been scared to try that with my wife!
I tried years ago with Knoppix live and SuSE when her windoze box crashed.
That went nowhere.
I have Ubuntu as a second OS and toying with Mint on an older Lenovo laptop some.
Ha! When I say “threatened” it was more like a 3 year conditioning exercise. She knew it was coming and there was but one program that she wouldn’t let go of WinXP for. But...It all worked.